Local farms. Meat costs more - but spend the money on things that matter, buy fewer jeans. Local meat/dairy helps sustain local farms (who need the help and we need them). Keeps money in community. Kind of a no brainer regardless of politics.
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This. A way to minimize cost of red meat is to split the cost of a whole carcass with family/friends. -
Yes. Splitting a whole animal is a thing in many areas of the country as well as veg shares. Sometimes not well publicized - often word of mouth (hunting community) or via co-ops or just Google it, talk to local farmers
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Of course there’s an alternative! Grow and raise your own shit and demand companies to treat your food with the utmost respect! I buy from farmers that I know and allows to see their operations as much as I can. I’ve raised chickens and have a vegetable garden
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Suggestion: Hunt your own food. Look an animal in the eye, and connect yourself to the earth. Its not barbaric. Its not thrilling, its not sad, its not happy, its truth. Its everything at once. You'll never leave a scrap on your plate again, and your understanding changes.
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Stop breeding? Deregulating the farming industry and get rid of the middle man. Farm to table. Stop putting artificial expirations on our food and throwing it away when it could feed the hungry. Food is fuel and most tanks are either overflowing or empty. Very few eat to live.
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And then of course build a chicken coop and start raising your own for eggs and maybe meat. Try using alternatives to milk and dairy. Now you have veggies, some protein and non-dairy sources you are self-sufficient. This is not rocket science. Take the first step and just do it.
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Start by installing a small outdoor raised bed garden and also start container gardening. Use heirloom seeds and plant bee friendly flowers to encourage pollination. Now you have cut down dependence on agribusiness and grow your own organic food. Every year, expand from there.
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They're making big progress, it seems, with lab-created meat. Won't ever need to kill an animal, as I understand it. If/when they get it right, factories will be pumping it out like candy bars.
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Hardest part would be telling rural America they’re going lose yet another lifeblood industry. Best approach is bottom-up, make better personal choices, inspire others to follow, reduce consumer demand for factory farmed products.
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I don't think you would see hardly any backlash and I speak as a factory farmer. Factory farming operations drive down the prices of our commodities
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Sadly the alternative is generally starvation, while we'd like to think people are capable of producing their own food that's largely not the case also we should try to make things more humane but at the same time we can't price people out of being able to eat.
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Not true. CAFO's etc are not vital to human existence. Meat can be produced alternatively.
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In what ways so that it's sustainable and doesn't resort in shortages , widespread denigration of property value etc....
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Genetically grown meat
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The alternative- is a return to agrarian communities if you have a personal conviction. It seems almost impossible to feed the large urban communities without factory farming and GMO’s
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The reality is that if we eschew factory farming that meat will be more expensive. And I am ok with that. Older folks remember only having chicken on Sunday because it cost more. I only buy from local farms, definitely more $$$ but worth it. I am basically vegetarian 4 days/week
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